Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies (Dairy or Pareve)

(Half a recipe can also be made)

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 sticks butter, softened (I use ½ stick or 100 gram margarine and ½ cup oil)

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs, beaten

1 tablespoon vanilla

½ cup unsweetened cocoa

2 cups chocolate chips, or chocolate bars, chopped

1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions:

1.      Preheat oven to 375^◦F (190^◦C).

2.      In a bowl stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.

3.      In another large bowl stir together butter, white and brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa. Gradually stir flour mixture into butter/sugar mixture and mix until combined.

4.      Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts, if using, and stir to distribute evenly.

For cookies: Drop batter by teaspoon onto baking paper and bake about 10 minutes. Remove from oven when they are no longer soft to the touch. Cool on a baking rack.

For bars: Spread dough into a greased 9" square baking pan and bake 20 to 25 minutes until toothpick comes out dry. Cut into squares when cool.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baking with Oatmeal adds a crunchiness and makes the baked item lighter (amazing in breads!). I brought these cookies to a family Shabbat simcha. It was such a hit that I've been asked to bring it to every simcha since.


Onto the recipe:
1/2 cup shortening (see previous blog on margarine/shortening)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour mixed with 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt
1 cup oatmeal.
1/2 cup chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, 180 degrees C.
2. Cream the shortening. Add sugars and mix.
3. Add egg and mix.
4. Add dry ingredients and mix.
5. Add oatmeal and mix.
6. Add chocolate chips and hand mix.
7. Drop by teaspoonful on greased, floured pan. I personally use a silicone baking sheet or baking paper and skip the greased, floured part.
8. Bake for around 15 minutes until the cookies can be lifted without being stuck to the sheet.

Note that this recipe does not need a mixer.

Yields over 3 dozen cookies.

Enjoy!